Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tension rose in Cairo. Men told each other: Something has got to break. It was like thunder from the desert, an intangible but ever-growing certainty that a blow was about to fall somewhere around the Mediterranean...
...Nasty terrain!" exclaimed the Prime Minister, looking down on some of the desert of French North Africa. "What would happen if we couldn't go on?" "Knock the kite around a bit, but nobody'd get hurt," Ruggles guessed...
...regiment of the famed Fliegerkorps parachutists from Crete was in Rommel's front line, getting acclimated for desert warfare. More thousands of parachutists and airborne infantrymen waited in Greece and Crete, whence they could directly attack the British rear along the coast, or be shifted to Africa for use from Rommel's airdromes...
...Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa. He had an audience with King Farouk (see p. 66), a chat with Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Premier, and the Shah of Persia. And the old (67) war horse could not be kept from the front. He flew west into the desert, changed into an armored car, got within four miles of the famous "Hill of Jesus," had to be argued out of going to the edge of no man's land. Through binoculars he saw Rommel's fortifications, watched Messerschmitts fighting with Spitfires two miles away...
Artfully sidestepping the censors, Morrison rumbled his warnings of the grim consequences of Allied defeat in the desert, begged for American men and American equipment, dramatized the vague Libyan-Egyptian front within an inch of his listeners' lives. Announced he in a first broadcast: "I'm going up to the desert where other people are fighting my battle-Englishmen and Indians and South Africans and New Zealanders. Let us know when you're coming, Americans. We'll bake a cake...